The Kelp Manifesto

That Girl

How was I supposed to give you what you wanted?

Maybe the fact I have to ask that question goes a long way to why we parted,

but I was always whole-hearted, because for me you were epitome of cathartic,

I treated you with the care needed to make a mosaic, any emotional support you needed I could give, for you to take your pick,

just not the material kind, the fakest kind, and for that I would not and will not take stick,

but you beat me with it like a brick, you flailed and you kicked,

forcing me to see through the relationship we merely mimicked.

In the end you will see the fault in your decision,

you would deserve derision for such a lack of futuristic vision,

I will be so much more than that man could ever fathom or imagine,

what a cliché, could you not have chosen someone more interesting to commit the ultimate sin?

I reimagine my foolishness and blind faith with an ironic grin,

pathetic excuses that only prepared our past years together for disposal to the bin,

the bin of lost love, because I have so much to give and my rise to success is merely about to begin,

in a strange way you will have a played a large part in its origin.

Ah, hindsight and its exposing light,

I could allow it to fill me with fright but instead I wish only luck for your life's plight,

nothing different could be expected but an older man to spend to your hearts delight,

generations play into the present and your mother plays out your desires in plain sight,

whether wrong or right it is a life with this hindsight I did not want and so am glad it escaped in flight,

I need freedom, my life cannot be bound so tight,

just extra motivation I have been supplied to eradicate my thoughts of inadequacy with all my might.

Your decisions confusing, maybe even amusing,

the process has been bruising and although my life is by no means cruising, I contain emotion worth using,

a call to action, so rousing, something I would not even think about in the past, barely a musing,

although I have lost I am by no means losing,

I have many a reason to dance and sing,

friends and family are the most important thing,

unanswerable pain is no longer daunting me, a dark shadow lingering, the bells of hope and freedom ring.